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Kade Katrak
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Not to hype this too much, but schools mostly interview for three reasons marginal candidates, yield protection, and to help determine scholarships. It seems unlikely the first is at play. But either or both of the second two could be.
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Don't explain it. That would just draw attention to it. If you are asked in an interview, the class schedule reason or even just studying for the LSAT works.
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http://georgia.lawschoolnumbers.com/stats/1718 You need a 162. If you get it or higher you are nearly certainly in. If you get a 161 or lower things are going to be dicey. Don't worry about the fact that other people have less work exerience than …
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I had a single formal reasoning philosophy class as a methods requirement for my major. It might have been useful in that learning it relied mainly on repitition(a learning technique which foolproofing has copied and taken to an extreme), however it…
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@oberdysz First off, lying accomodated testers make an awful explanation for a rise in 175+ applications. The reason for this is that we know there hasn't been a dramatic rise in 175+ takers. We know this because the percentiles for each score are…
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@uhinberg said: @"Paul Caint" said: @"Seeking Perfection" @BinghamtonDave Checkout this data. Notice especially the 262% increase in test takers who score >175: https://classic.7sage.com/discussion/#/discussion/comment/…
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@"L.Etranger" said: @zanesbit thanks! I'm really basic so I just use my phone timer for tests. The app background noises may draw some awkward stares in the quiet section of the library where I tend to sit :P If you are in a library, there i…
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@acsimon said: @"Paul Caint" Why would there be any strategic implications?--If I were either a splitter or a reverse splitter with respect to these schools I would still apply to both. Were you referring to expectations that either camp shoul…
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I didn't use them for review after I had finished foolproofing that game (and came back to it one day later and one week later). However, it makes for a bigger celebratory bonfire when you get your good LSAT score and gives you a sense of how much …
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My first piece of advice would be to not make decisions based on others opinions of you. However, failing that, just make sure to take the future into account. They will be more impressed when you get into the law schools you get into as a result o…
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@kayyyy95 I'm no expert, but it seems to me that the addendum wouldn't hurt. People generally advise against them(seemingly on the grounds that they make no difference), but I'm leaning toward writing one for my 8 point increase. It seems that as…
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3 practice tests isn't very long to be stagnant. You have gained 7 points in 2-3 months. I could be a match for the type of person you were talking about who started out very good at the lsat. I started at a 168, studied using powerscore for a few…
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I think @"Paul Caint" sort of expresses this, but what undergraduate you came from is a soft. Softs can never really make up for the harder factors since they can't directly affect the school's ranking. Now admissions offices might prefer to have s…
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Have you been foolproofing logic games? If so, for how long? Foolproofing ought to have made some difference from a -15 if you had been doing it regularly for a year. I imagine you'll be able to get those points back on logical reasoning with a lit…
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I would actually recommend doing it on the same test. It is a little hard to ignore your previous work, but sometimes that's what you need to be able to do on the real test if a question is stumping you too. And they won't give you an extra copy to …
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What course? You could definitely finish the core curriculum from the basic course. However, after that you will likely want to do a good amount of additional prep. Most people have some degree of trouble with logic games which take a minimum of a …
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A significant amount of my gains on logic games came from getting really fast on the easy games. This gave me the necessary time to slowly and methodically do the harder games. You won't gain as much of that speed if you stop doing the easy ones. I…
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@Brazil020511 There is a logic game referenced as the dino game because colored dinosaurs are the game pieces. I assume it is test 57 section 1 game 3 from the comment. That sounds about right to me, but I haven't checked. Itis notoriously difficul…
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What do you mean by doing it by difficulty? People normally foolproof tests1-35. Did you sort these by type? I did them in order and felt significant gains by around the time I had foolproofed 20 or so tests worth so 80 games. However, that is tal…
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I'm not sure. If you got a better score than your old one you probably shouldn't cancel. If you got a worse score you probably should. You can't know whether your score is better or worse though so you have to make a judgement call knowing that a h…
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I almost always recommend against cancelling. I didn't cancel on my first test when I didn't finish logic games and wound up with a 172. I regularly struggled to finish games sections at the time though. I think you make a good case for cancelling…
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I have no idea if you can get your next exam free, but you should complain anyways so they can take some steps to fix it.
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@"Jason Kander" As I understand it, they don't average your score. Many schools claim to evaluate scores holistically. But most don't because they face ratings pressure. Because Yale as the dominant best law school in the country faces very little…
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@dytmom_3x said: Ok guys, thanks SO much. I went ahead and took it timed this morning, then BR this afternoon. Without shame I'll share, and please tell me, can I improve, since I'm still early in the curriculum? My actual score was 142, and…
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@annerym said: Hi everyone, I'm pretty sure the answer is I can't take the test (I was planning on canceling my score anyway) but does anyone know if there is anything that can be done about being admitted to the exam if you lose your onl…
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Two points. First of all, I don't think you need to be 5 points above yout goal score to take. Some people might never get 5 points above their goal. As an extreme example, my goal was a 174. I took the first time averaging a 173 and got a 172. On …
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I always took a break, but also always blind reviewed the same day. You can't score your test until you blind review it(or it wouldn't be a blind review) and when I take a PT I want to know how I did as soon as possible. I did most of my PTs two at…
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@tylerdschreur10 Amen!
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@"Paul Caint" said: 10, but to be honest I'll probably only use 1. What I've found is a dull pencil is actually better for bubbling in the scantron, since the surface area of the graphite has increased I'm such a nerd That's why y…
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NOTE: PT 82 SPOILERS BELOW NOTE: PT 82 SPOILERS BELOW NOTE: PT 82 SPOILERS BELOW NOTE: PT 82 SPOILERS BELOW @10000019 LR1 Q14 I was between B and D. I didn’t like how strong the language was in AC B, but I took a problem with AC D suggest…